Britain wakes up to the end of home ownership
The notion of home ownership has been close to the heart of successive British governments, but in the age of Generation Rent that dream has died
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Why Boris Johnson is the perfect pick to be foreign minister
Theresa May’s decision to name the bumbling, boorish Boris her top diplomat is a perfect reflection of the politics of modern Britain
The politics of the English summer house
Adrian Tinniswood documents the history of the English country house in the interwar years
A dead king and now a winning football club: Leicester’s renaissance
A year after Richard III was buried, Leicester can’t stop its winning ways
A smart new metropolitan-England-today novel: Book review
As though motivated by E.M. Forster’s dictum to “only connect,” the five key characters of McWatt’s magnetic sixth novel are muddling through.
Wither Westminster: How do you fix a crumbling parliament?
Britain’s parliament building is a mess, and many politicians there wouldn’t have it any other way
How to make sense of England’s ’van man’ election
The latest bit of British political theatre foretells the coming election—how the far-right, anti-immigration movement is rising
She was Queen of Britain—but also a woman
A.N. Wilson’s bio of Queen Victoria uncovers a personal life ignored by earlier historians
Britain’s wilful blindness to the horrors in Rotherham
What led officials to ignore Rotherham, the nation’s most shocking sex abuse scandal for more than a decade?
Scotland’s referendum is a bold, Braveheart campaign
Both loved and loathed, the 1995 film classic looms large in the battle over Scottish independence